Author archive

Font Detective    (2018.04.28)

Tom Phinney is the Font Detective

No bad deed goes punished in the accessibility business    (2018.04.22)

Ostracism is indistinguishable from an actual knife in the back. Cretins like those I tackle here can’t even man up and talk to me face-to-face. Meanwhile, Karl Groves continues to get away with murder

Ungrateful unacknowledgement from Kottke    (2018.04.22)

The Jason Kottke caste has a sunk cost in pretending I wasn’t as much of a pioneer as they were, and that I simply do not exist

Here’s to you, Speedbird    (2018.04.22)

I still read Speedbird (“bitterness or resentment”)

Colour sense: You’ve got it or you don’t    (2018.04.21)

Edgar Murillo is a deaf gay artiste from Spain with colour sense that goes beyond innate to primal

Diversity taken a step too far    (2018.04.15)

A Ford Excape commercial pairs a brown-eyed ginger with (inevitably) an Orientalist female. Gingers have a hard enough time reproducing as it is

Canadian English accent (from nowhere)    (2018.04.01)

HAL 9000’s accent was (neutral) Canadian

Politics and mental health    (2018.04.01)

Ian Capstick and Fredrik de Boer are two hacks undergoing mental-health crises. They will be extended warm support and understanding because they are, first of all, handsome or adorable and, more importantly, ultra-left-wing. Meanwhile, conservatives and uggos who dare to admit to any form of illness are treated as prey by the Left

“Nobody to discriminate against”    (2018.03.22)

Ukraine has “nobody to discriminate against,” except of course its Gypsies, Jews, and homosexuals